8,000-Year-Old Fort Settlements Near Siberia Show Farming Wasn’t Necessary For Complex Societies

We need to readjust our view of ancient hunter-gatherers and their world

Top: Aerial View of Amnya River And Promontory; Bottom: Plan Of Amnya I and II — By N. Golovanov, S. Krubeck & S. Juncker Via Piezonka, H., Et Al, Antiquity, 97(396), 1381–1401.

Let’s do a little exercise. I want you to picture a Neolithic (later Stone Age) hunter-gatherer from about eight thousand years ago. Get a physical image of this person in your mind.